Officers from the 175th Artillery Regiment have been placed under house arrest as charges of treason and conspiracy against the government are made against them after retreating from positions in Nawa and al-Sheikh Miskin.

Rebels captured the Harmun Military Base, which houses a communications center 30 m underground that includes the communications networks for the 9th and 5th Divisions, near al-Sheikh Miskin:

The countryside around Tel Umm Horan, just north of Nawa:

Fighting around the Brigade 82 Base:

A video by Harakat al-Muthanna al-Islamiyyah showing some of their fighting so far:

A video claiming to show MANPADS captured by rebels after they stormed Brigade 182 in Nawa:

This is the second time they have been hit in that town, and the third time overall.

The strikes were once again said to be against the Khorasan group, a group that US Intelligence says is attached to JaN within Syria that is working to plan external attacks on Western targets.

Although the strikes have all hit JaN, the US has either only mentioned the Khorasan group in their briefings, and not JaN, or stated that the attacks were not against JaN as a whole, but just that specific group. Central Command’s report on the strike on this case said that they “struck terrorists associated with a network of veteran al-Qaida operatives, sometimes called the “Khorasan Group.”

This comes as JaN has continued to push Western-backed FSA groups out of Idlib as it consolidates its hold on the region.

The strikes against JaN have been unpopular with civilians and other rebel groups, since they are seen as targeting a group that fights alongside other rebels against both Assad and the Islamic State, even as the strikes don’t target Assad. Civilians have also been killed in the strikes against JaN.

In response to government airstrikes on ar-Raqqa, the Islamic State executed 4 people on charges of working for the government.

2 analysis on the articles that have come out recently claiming that Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State have reconciled:

The UN reported that the Islamic State’s commanders are liable for war crimes on a “massive scale” in northeast Syria: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoISyria/HRC_CRP_ISIS_14Nov2014.pdf

The report is based on over 300 interviews, and the findings will be added to a secret list of war crimes suspects from the war.